{"id":57865,"date":"2015-05-11T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=57865"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:52:15","slug":"hubris-versus-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/05\/hubris-versus-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubris versus Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_49462\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49462\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-49462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"David Krieger\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Krieger<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>27 Apr 2015 &#8211; <\/em>Humankind must not be complacent in the face of the threat posed by nuclear weapons.\u00a0 The future of humanity and all life depends upon the outcome of the ongoing struggle between hubris and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris is an ancient Greek word meaning extreme arrogance. Wisdom is cautionary good sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris is at the heart of Greek tragedy \u2013 the arrogant belief that one\u2019s power is unassailable.\u00a0 Wisdom counsels that no human fortress is impregnable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris says some countries can hold onto nuclear weapons and rely upon them for deterrence.\u00a0 Wisdom, in the voice of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, says these weapons must be eliminated before they eliminate us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris says these weapons of annihilation are subject to human control.\u00a0 Wisdom says that humans are fallible creatures, subject to error.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris repeats that we can control our most dangerous technologies.\u00a0 Wisdom says look at what has happened in numerous accidents with nuclear weapons as well as accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris says the spread of nuclear weapons can be contained.\u00a0 Wisdom says that the only sure way to prevent the spread or use of nuclear weapons is to abolish those that now exist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris says that political leaders will always be rational and avoid the use of nuclear weapons.\u00a0 Wisdom observes that all humans, including political leaders, behave irrationally at times under some circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris says we can play nuclear roulette with the human future.\u00a0 Wisdom says we have a responsibility to assure there is a human future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hubris says that we can control nuclear fire.\u00a0 Wisdom says nuclear weapons will spark wildfires of human suffering and must be eradicated forever from the planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Nuclear Age demands that we conquer complacency with compassion and hubris with wisdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>David Krieger is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>. He<\/em><em> has a new collection of poems entitled <\/em>Wake Up<em>.\u00a0 For more visit the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\" >www.wagingpeace.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\/hubris-versus-wisdom\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 wagingpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humankind must not be complacent in the face of the threat posed by nuclear weapons.  The future of humanity and all life depends upon the outcome of the ongoing struggle between hubris and wisdom. Hubris is an ancient Greek word meaning extreme arrogance. Wisdom is cautionary good sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}